Zipf’s law of abbreviation was only found to apply to blue whales and humpback whales, though only five species could be ...

Just like popular songs on TikTok, new humpback whale songs can rapidly spread across regions and populations to replace ...

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...

The whales that travel in groups and are more likely to fight a killer whale, include right, bowhead, grey and humpback, ...

Learn more about how baleen whales split into two groups — fight or flight — and how these groups determine how loud they ...

Blue whales are not just the largest animals alive today, but the largest animals to ever live on Earth. They can stretch ...

Some baleen whales avoid killer whale attacks by singing songs at deep frequencies that their predators cannot hear.

Language has long been considered a uniquely human trait, with features that mark it out as distinct from the communication ...

New research finds some baleen whale species call at such deep frequencies that they're completely undetectable by killer whales, which cannot hear sounds below 100 hertz. These also tend to be the ...

Two studies reveal that the communication systems of most cetaceans examined adhere to the principles of efficiency and ...